1-on-1 Highlights from Day 9 of Spring Practice (March 28)

[WestEndZone]

We still can't cover intermediate routes.

How do we allow a seam route for a TD in the redzone? Smh

We have no answer for the seams if we play single high. So prehistoric.

I have a hard time calling single high looks prehistoric. If anything, cover 0 is prehistoric. Order a book with classic playbooks from the turn of the century. It'll be an interesting experience. Everything is brutally simple, but it gives you a greater understanding of how football works.

Seahawks won the Super Bowl playing with one high safety. Alabama likes to base out of something called rip/Liz match, which is something of a pattern read form of cover 3, similar to what the Seahawks were doing. Oversimplified, it's quarters coverage to the field and man to the boundary.

 

[Coach Macho]

We still can't cover intermediate routes.

How do we allow a seam route for a TD in the redzone? Smh

We have no answer for the seams if we play single high. So prehistoric.

I have a hard time calling single high looks prehistoric. If anything, cover 0 is prehistoric. Order a book with classic playbooks from the turn of the century. It'll be an interesting experience. Everything is brutally simple, but it gives you a greater understanding of how football works.

Seahawks won the Super Bowl playing with one high safety. Alabama likes to base out of something called rip/Liz match, which is something of a pattern read form of cover 3, similar to what the Seahawks were doing. Oversimplified, it's quarters coverage to the field and man to the boundary.

I know what Rip/Liz Match is. I run it.

When I said "prehistoric" I was referring to the WAY we run single-high. (i.e. it's basic and doesn't adjust to routes like Rip/Liz Match does)

It's a prehistoric version of Cover-3, which is probably why D'Onofrio loves to stay in 2-high all game, cause he's scared of four verticals. Rip/Liz Match is Cover-3's answer to four verts.

I can't think of one reason that I would run a basic Cover-3 anymore. Rip/Liz Match is just more sound IMO and most OC's will shred a basic Cover-3.

 

[bigpurk45]

Looks like PD gives Tracey the most difficulty.

 

[LuCane]

We still can't cover intermediate routes.

How do we allow a seam route for a TD in the redzone? Smh

We have no answer for the seams if we play single high. So prehistoric.

I have a hard time calling single high looks prehistoric. If anything, cover 0 is prehistoric. Order a book with classic playbooks from the turn of the century. It'll be an interesting experience. Everything is brutally simple, but it gives you a greater understanding of how football works.

Seahawks won the Super Bowl playing with one high safety. Alabama likes to base out of something called rip/Liz match, which is something of a pattern read form of cover 3, similar to what the Seahawks were doing. Oversimplified, it's quarters coverage to the field and man to the boundary.

I wouldn't call single high looks prehistoric either, but I would say you have to force a quick decision from the QB or pick a side to overload. Imagine running some of the fire zone looks from the back 6, yet play contain with the 5 you "send." If I'm taking my drop in the middle of the field, and Cover 3 is primarily what I played, it'd be a **** nightmare.

 

[jerzeycane]

We still can't cover intermediate routes.

How do we allow a seam route for a TD in the redzone? Smh

We have no answer for the seams if we play single high. So prehistoric.

I have a hard time calling single high looks prehistoric. If anything, cover 0 is prehistoric. Order a book with classic playbooks from the turn of the century. It'll be an interesting experience. Everything is brutally simple, but it gives you a greater understanding of how football works.

Seahawks won the Super Bowl playing with one high safety. Alabama likes to base out of something called rip/Liz match, which is something of a pattern read form of cover 3, similar to what the Seahawks were doing. Oversimplified, it's quarters coverage to the field and man to the boundary.

I know what Rip/Liz Match is. I run it.

When I said "prehistoric" I was referring to the WAY we run single-high. (i.e. it's basic and doesn't adjust to routes like Rip/Liz Match does)

It's a prehistoric version of Cover-3, which is probably why D'Onofrio loves to stay in 2-high all game, cause he's scared of four verticals. Rip/Liz Match is Cover-3's answer to four verts.

I can't think of one reason that I would run a basic Cover-3 anymore. Rip/Liz Match is just more sound IMO and most OC's will shred a basic Cover-3.

You seem certain that we are spot dropping and it's not the players simply ******* up the execution of pattern reading

 

[Tito Benach]

Looks like PD gives Tracey the most difficulty.

I've noticed they match them up a lot and Dorsett winds up winning the majority. It's partly because Dorsett has blazing speed while Tracy truly isn't that fast.

 

[lauderdaleballer]

I was comparing goodwin and dorsett draft stock situation not there play on the field. Goodwin stock
went up because he ran in the 4.2s in the 40 and if dorsett runs low 4.3s maybe i think that would boost him some.

But dorsett is not a 2nd round pick even after the 800 yards year going into his jr season no one had him projected in the first 6 rounds. Yall need to wake up its not all about numbers. Leornard hankerson was a 3rd round pick and he had back to back record setting years and ran in the 4.4s at his size in the 40. Perryman and seantrel was our highest projected draft elgible players and dp was projected in 3rd round and seantrel 2nd-4th.

Hank fell because he had inconsistent hands... I remember during his draft year they said he had 9 drops in his firt 4 games alone... He'll catch a one-hand catch over 3 defenders then he'll drop a wide open td pass... He did everything right but catch the ball... Dorsett only had one game to mind like that and it was ND...

 

[WestEndZone]

I know what Rip/Liz Match is. I run it.

When I said "prehistoric" I was referring to the WAY we run single-high. (i.e. it's basic and doesn't adjust to routes like Rip/Liz Match does)

It's a prehistoric version of Cover-3, which is probably why D'Onofrio loves to stay in 2-high all game, cause he's scared of four verticals. Rip/Liz Match is Cover-3's answer to four verts.

I can't think of one reason that I would run a basic Cover-3 anymore. Rip/Liz Match is just more sound IMO and most OC's will shred a basic Cover-3.

I still doubt that we're actually running a spot drop version of cov-3. I'm not sure the exact portion of the film you were referring to, but I assumed it was somewhere around 4:40. Only half of the field is active at a time, and I'm not sure if they're in a qtr/qtr/half version of cover 3 (which everyone uses as a trips check). There's a hard corner on almost every play, with no safety in the outside qtr (if safety in outside qtr then it could be something of a cloud look).

The hard corner there does a good job of "sluffiing" on his china check (gets a pic), so it might look like he's playing a deep zone. I think he's playing a flat or a read flat, which would assume cover 2 or quarters. That same hard corner ends up running with a vertical later on, which again doesn't automatically assume cov-3 (or qtr/qtr/half against trips). He got nothing from his keys coming out to him, so he kept with #1.

I'm not a cov-3 fan either, but I can't believe that a div1 program is actually running it (outside of zone blitzing). I would much rather play robber coverage (inverted cov-2) any day of the week.

I wouldn't call single high looks prehistoric either, but I would say you have to force a quick decision from the QB or pick a side to overload. Imagine running some of the fire zone looks from the back 6, yet play contain with the 5 you "send." If I'm taking my drop in the middle of the field, and Cover 3 is primarily what I played, it'd be a **** nightmare.

I've run into a lot of the same problems with that drop-end. I've never been a fan of fire zone against any doubles formations, really any one back sets (forget about empty). We had a check or two to try and get better matchups, but I it was wasn't much help. I would much rather cover-0 blitz in that situation (but you need dudes who can cover).

To help with the problem you mentioned, a lot of teams have started to play 4under/2deep with their zone blitz game. It's really interesting, actually. I'd like to see us do some of that too.

 

[Coach Macho]

We still can't cover intermediate routes.

How do we allow a seam route for a TD in the redzone? Smh

We have no answer for the seams if we play single high. So prehistoric.

I have a hard time calling single high looks prehistoric. If anything, cover 0 is prehistoric. Order a book with classic playbooks from the turn of the century. It'll be an interesting experience. Everything is brutally simple, but it gives you a greater understanding of how football works.

Seahawks won the Super Bowl playing with one high safety. Alabama likes to base out of something called rip/Liz match, which is something of a pattern read form of cover 3, similar to what the Seahawks were doing. Oversimplified, it's quarters coverage to the field and man to the boundary.

I know what Rip/Liz Match is. I run it.

When I said "prehistoric" I was referring to the WAY we run single-high. (i.e. it's basic and doesn't adjust to routes like Rip/Liz Match does)

It's a prehistoric version of Cover-3, which is probably why D'Onofrio loves to stay in 2-high all game, cause he's scared of four verticals. Rip/Liz Match is Cover-3's answer to four verts.

I can't think of one reason that I would run a basic Cover-3 anymore. Rip/Liz Match is just more sound IMO and most OC's will shred a basic Cover-3.

You seem certain that we are spot dropping and it's not the players simply ******* up the execution of pattern reading

Yeah, cause it's year 3 and i still see us starring at the QB.

 

[Coach Macho]

We still can't cover intermediate routes.

How do we allow a seam route for a TD in the redzone? Smh

We have no answer for the seams if we play single high. So prehistoric.

I have a hard time calling single high looks prehistoric. If anything, cover 0 is prehistoric. Order a book with classic playbooks from the turn of the century. It'll be an interesting experience. Everything is brutally simple, but it gives you a greater understanding of how football works.

Seahawks won the Super Bowl playing with one high safety. Alabama likes to base out of something called rip/Liz match, which is something of a pattern read form of cover 3, similar to what the Seahawks were doing. Oversimplified, it's quarters coverage to the field and man to the boundary.

I know what Rip/Liz Match is. I run it.

When I said "prehistoric" I was referring to the WAY we run single-high. (i.e. it's basic and doesn't adjust to routes like Rip/Liz Match does)

It's a prehistoric version of Cover-3, which is probably why D'Onofrio loves to stay in 2-high all game, cause he's scared of four verticals. Rip/Liz Match is Cover-3's answer to four verts.

I can't think of one reason that I would run a basic Cover-3 anymore. Rip/Liz Match is just more sound IMO and most OC's will shred a basic Cover-3.

You seem certain that we are spot dropping and it's not the players simply ******* up the execution of pattern reading

That seam route that Olsen threw to Sandland a couple practices ago was the same thing. He simply threw the ball right behind the linebackers head, in the seam.

 

[The GOAT]

THERE YOU GO STAN!!!

 

[Cane Dynasty]

THERE YOU GO STAN!!!

I think he will start over Walford.

 

[cowboycane]

Looks like PD gives Tracey the most difficulty.

I've noticed they match them up a lot and Dorsett winds up winning the majority. It's partly because Dorsett has blazing speed while Tracy truly isn't that fast.

I wish we would allow Tracey to just come up and mug Dorsett off the line then...wasn't that his strength out of high school? Physical at the line and smooth at turning his hips?